"MayQueen" > wrote

> Chatty Cathy wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:

>>> When I have a choice I do not eat in bed but I have been in hospital and
>>> had no alternative so my answer has to be rarel!
>>
>> I have only been in hospital 3 times - twice for the birth of my kids and
>> once for an appendix operation... so I wasn't "very sick", and the
>> nursing staff had no objection to my sitting in one of the visitors'
>> chairs to eat my meals on a tray, next to the bed. But I suppose if you
>> can't get out of bed to eat, or if the hospital "rules" don't allow it,
>> you don't have much choice.
>
> I did answer never to the meals in bed, but didn't think of hospital
> stays. So I guess it's a rarely then.

I don't consider being bedridden and eating in bed the same as a
question, Do you eat in bed, as if it's a usual voluntary thing you
might do.

nancy